2026 State Legislative Issues
The KAS Science Policy Committee is actively monitoring bills introduced during the Kentucky General Assembly's 2026 session and identifying those that are of interest or concern to the science community. Summaries of bills we think are worth watching are listed below. You can click on a bill number to see complete legislative info, including sponsors, amendments, vote history, and the full text of the legislation.
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(Updated 02/18/2026)
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HB54 (Donworth) - Would establish the Advisory Redistricting Commission, an independent redistricting body that cannot be compelled to make changes requested by the legislature to electoral maps.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB71 (Roarx) - Would allow members and members-elect of the General Assembly to pre-file bills to be posted on the Legislative Research Commission's website in advance of the next regular legislative session.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB112 (Brown Jr.) - Would propose an amendment to section 25 of the KY constitution to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude in all circumstances, including as punishment for a crime.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB154 (Willner) - Would remove the statute of limitations for civil actions arising from childhood sexual assault or abuse.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB221 (Tackett Laferty) - Would establish the Kentucky Severe Weather Alert System.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB259 (Baker) - Would propose an amendment to the KY constitution that would require candidates for the General Assembly, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Treasurer, Auditor of Public Accounts, Commissioner of Agriculture, Secretary of State, Attorney General, county clerk, Circuit Court clerk, Commonwealth’s attorney, county attorney, District Judge, Circuit Judge, Court of Appeals Judge, and Justice of the Supreme Court to be a natural born citizen of the United States and a national of only the United States in order to hold each respective office.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB308 (Dotson) - Would provide that any person who has been convicted of, pled guilty to, or entered an Alford plea to a sex crime in which the victim was under the age of 12 shall undergo medroxyprogesterone acetate treatment, a form of chemical castration that reduces testosterone until treatment is discontinued.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB337 (Witten) - Would restrict disconnection of service by retail electric and gas utilities under a variety of conditions and times. Includes severe weather and protections for people with health issues.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB430 (Aull) - Would require county boards of elections to conduct election day and no-excuse in-person absentee voting on large public university campuses
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB446 (Kulkarni) - Would establish the refundable home installation credit ($7,500 annually) for qualifying home installations to increase the habitability or efficiency of the residence for individuals that are age 65 or older or have a physical or mental impairment.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB478 (Grossberg) - Would increase punishment for crimes that were committed intentionally against a person because of their actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, mental or physical disability, gender identity or expression, or sexual orientation.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB479 (Grossberg) - Would define "gender identity or expression"; list the actions that qualify as hate crimes; list the actual or perceived characteristics a person must have in order to qualify as a victim of a hate crime; outline penalties for a person guilty of a hate crime; set forth criteria for seeking an enhanced sentence.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
SB115 (Neal) - Would prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in various labor and employment practices, in places of public accommodation, state and local human rights commissions, certain housing; real estate; and other financial transactions, certain insurance sales, and in certain credit transactions.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
Education
HB122 (Brown Jr.) - Would require African history and Native American history instruction in certain middle and high school world history and civilization courses.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB130 (Aull) - Would require the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority to annually adjust the Kentucky education excellence scholarship (KEES) based on the Consumer Price Index.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB240 (Gordon) - Would require the Council on Postsecondary Education to consider individuals born in Kentucky as Kentucky residents when determining residency for tuition and admission purposes in the state postsecondary education system.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB395 (Aull) - Would require public middle and high school curriculum to include instruction on the history of racism.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB438 (Grossl) - Would require the incorporation of instruction on the Civil Rights movement in the social studies academic standards for elementary through high school.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB490 (Thompson) - Would allow firing of tenured professors for, "bona fide financial reasons."
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB498 (Duvall) - Would establish the Adult Workforce Diploma Pilot Program, administered by the Education and Labor Cabinet, to assist a person who is at least twenty-one (21) years of age in earning a high school diploma and developing critical employability and career skills to prepare the person for employment.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
SB6 (Stivers) - Would appropriate $150,000,000 in fiscal year 2026-2027 to the endowed research fund.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
SB26 (Tichenor) - Would ban DEI initiatives in the Kentucky Board of Education and public schools.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
SB120 (Williams) - Would make members on the Kentucky Board of Education who represent each of the Supreme Court districts be elected to 4-year terms in partisan elections instead of appointed
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB572, HB574, SB165, SB166 (Bojanowski, Donworth, Neal, Armstrong) - Would require each local school district to provide preschool to 4-year-olds who reside in a household with an income at or below 160% of the poverty level until the end of the 2030-2031 school year and beginning with the 2031-2032 school year, require each local school district to provide preschool to each 4 year old who is at risk
Note: These bills cover the same issue and will be updated based on the bill that has advanced furthest in the legislature.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
Environment and Energy
HB287 (Marzian) - Would prohibit the intentional release of more than 25 plastic balloons; establish a ban on plastic, single-use carryout bags by July 1, 2031; establish a ban on the provision of single-use plastic straws and Styrofoam food and beverage containers by retail food and beverage establishments by July 1, 2029.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB544 (Moore) - Would protect Kentuckians from higher electricity bills that come with the installation of new infrastructure needed to power data centers.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB551 (Stalker) - Would propose an amendment to Section 1 of the Constitution of Kentucky to establish a right of the people to have a healthy environment, including a right to clean air, pure water, and ecologically healthy habitats; declare the Commonwealth's natural resources, including air, water, flora, fauna, climate, and public lands, the common property of all people, including generations yet to come; establish that as trustee of the environment and its natural resources, the Commonwealth shall conserve and maintain them for the benefit of all people.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
SB25 (Rawlings) - Would make criminal atmospheric pollution a Class D felony; require that a person found guilty of criminal atmospheric pollution pay a civil penalty of not less than $500,000 in addition to all other penalties authorized by law; provide that each day that a person engages in criminal atmospheric pollution constitutes a separate offense.
Note: As KAS understands, this bill is related to the emission of weather-manipulating substances into the atmosphere.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
SB29 (Elkins) - Would prohibit the imposition of fees or permitting requirements on a solid waste management facility that is handling solid waste that was generated outside of the county or waste management district where the solid waste management facility is located, by the county or waste management district where solid waste was generated.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
SB43 (Carroll) - Would require that, as part of its annual report to the Legislative Research Commission, the Governor, and the Public Service Commission, the Energy Planning and Inventory Commission include a current inventory of the Commonwealth's existing electric generation and transmission resources, a forecast of changes in demand for those resources, and recommendations for how to address discrepancies between the current electric resource inventory and predicted future demand
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
SB49 (Elkins) - Would prohibit the disposal of covered batteries in solid waste disposal or recycling containers; require the Energy and Environment Cabinet to establish the Covered Battery Stewardship Program.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
SB57 (Carroll) - Would establish the Nuclear Reactor Site Readiness Pilot Program, create grants to cover 1/3 of the actual cost of implementation of new nuclear reactor sites with rules establishing timelines and conditions for grant refunding. Allows for fusion-related nuclear projects to be eligible for grant funding.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
SB107 (West) - Would prohibit the construction of any solar electric generating or related transmission facility on any land that was acquired by eminent domain.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB593 (Bray) - Would prohibit the charging or allocating of any costs associated with serving or constructing new infrastructure to serve a data center to any other customers served by natural gas, water, or wastewater utilities.
Note: Though this bill does overlap with HB544, it includes provisions covering non-energy utilities.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
Health
HB2 (Fleming) - Would align medicaid eligibility restrictions with current federal law (requires individuals to demonstrate community engagement to be eligible for or remain enrolled in Medicaid, with specific requirements for participation in work, community service, or education programs) and continue those requirements should federal guidelines change. Would also strengthen administration, increase data sharing to verify eligibility, and adjust requirements for managed care organizations (MCOs). Would mandate that cost-sharing requirements, such as co-payments for certain services, be imposed on eligible enrollees by January 1, 2027, with established minimum amounts. Would also establish new requirements for administering nonemergency medical transportation services and 1915(c) Medicaid waiver programs, including a tiered priority system for waiver slots, and would transition the administration of Medicaid-covered dental services to an administrative services organization (ASO) model by January 1, 2028, with strict limitations on ASO compensation.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB14 (Burke) - Would appropriate $355,000,000 in fiscal year 2026-27 to the rural hospital operations and facilities revolving loan fund.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB103, SB55 (Hart, Elkins) - Would make water fluoridation programs optional; allowing the governing bodies of water systems subject to regulation by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to decide whether they participate in water fluoridation programs.
Note: These bills cover the same issue and will be updated based on the bill that has advanced furthest in the legislature.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB111 (Bivens) - Would allow the determination and implementation of an on-farm animal health care or animal health production practice to be made solely by a farmer and his or her veterinarian.
Note: This bill restricts public health agencies from making determinations about livestock that poses a risk to the population. Direct opposition to SB155.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB165, SB93 (Burke, Armstrong) - Would propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to enshrine Medicaid expansion coverage to be submitted to voters for ratification or rejection.
Note: These bills cover the same issue and will be updated based on the bill that has advanced furthest in the legislature.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB176, SB103 (Moser, Wheeler) - Would implement restrictions on insurance companies prior authorization requirements, create a system for certain providers to be exempt from prior authorization, prohibit insurance companies from conducting a retrospective review that is based solely on a participating provider having a prior authorization exemption
Note: These bills cover the same issue and will be updated based on the bill that has advanced furthest in the legislature.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB196 (Kulkarni) - Would establish a PFAS Working Group, reporting requirement for manufacturers that intentionally added PFAS in products manufactured for sale or distribution in the Commonwealth; establish a reporting requirement for PFAS released in the Commonwealth by manufacturers that intentionally include PFAS in manufactured products.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB197 (Kulkarni) - Would establish the Healthy Soils Program and the Healthy Soils Program fund in the Department for Natural Resources, Division of Conservation; require the department to provide technical advice and assistance and to assist with soil health assessments and soil health plans; require the commissioner to approve applications for grants and other types of financial assistance under the Healthy Soils Program.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB232 (Moore) - Would prohibit social media platforms from providing minors an addictive feed and sending push notifications to minors between the hours of midnight and 6 a.m. without permission from a parent or legal guardian; require social media platforms to determine a user's age upon account creation and establish guidelines for handling the information; require social media platforms to develop and implement a proactive strategy to prevent a minor from exposure to harmful material.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB309 (Dotson) - Would prohibit the manufacture, sale, or exchange of meat or a meat product containing cultured animal tissue.
Note: This bill is based on unfounded fears of culture-grown animal tissue meant for human consumption.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB409 (Proctor) - Would redefine "capital expenditure minimum" and define "major medical equipment expenditure minimum"; amend KRS 216B.061 to modify conditions under which a person is prohibited from taking actions without a certificate of need.
Note: This bill relates to the construction of new hospitals and/or implementation of new hospital beds, which are restricted by the government on the basis of need. Hospitals and entities seeking to construct new hospitals would be allowed to more easily add additional capacity.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB431 (Aull) - Would require each public postsecondary educational institution to provide access to opioid antagonists on campus; permit access to be provided by emergency opioid antagonist cabinets; permit application for funds from the opioid abatement trust fund and other available sources to coordinate.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB447 (Raymer) - Would require coverage for emergency ground ambulance services; establish minimum allowable reimbursement for out-of-network emergency ground ambulance services; establish requirements for reimbursement of out-of-network ground ambulance providers; prohibit balance billing by out-of-network ground ambulance providers.
Note: This bill is meant to ensure the stability of ambulance services in Kentucky, especially in rural areas, that have been under heavy financial strain.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB453 (Flannery) - Would prohibit insurers and administrators from requiring insureds to pay cost sharing for a prescription drug that is greater than the cash price; require insurers and administrators to count the amount paid for a covered prescription drug towards the insured's cost-sharing if certain requirements are met; establish requirements for insurers, administrators, and pharmacies for submission of cash price paid by an insured; exempt a state employee health plan from counting certain third-party payments towards the insured's cost-sharing; provide for construction of cost-sharing requirements.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB466 (Holloway) - Would remove hepatitis B from the list of required immunizations for children; prohibit additional immunizations from being required by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services without the approval of the General Assembly; remove requirement for hepatitis B immunization for sixth grade school attendance.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB476 (Grossberg) - Would propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to establish an individual right to reproductive freedom; allow the Commonwealth to regulate abortion after fetal viability, but not prohibit if medically needed to protect a pregnant patient's life or physical or mental health; forbid discrimination in enforcement of this right; prohibit prosecution of an individual, or a person helping a pregnant individual, for exercising the right to reproductive freedom; to be submitted to voters for ratification or rejection.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB477 (Grossberg) - Would protect access to assisted reproductive technology and declare that a fertilized human egg or human embryo that exists outside of the uterus of a human body shall not be considered an unborn child, a minor child, a natural person, or any other term that connotes a human being for any purpose under state law.
Note: This bill will provide protection for providers of In Vitro Fertilization treatments and services from current interpretations of Kentucky law regarding reproductive care.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB488 (Gordon) - Would direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to prepare and submit a waiver amendment application to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to amend the 1915(c) HCB waiver program to include coverage for assisted living services.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB522, SB135 (Donworth, Armstrong) - Would allow the Governor to authorize limited use of moneys in the budget reserve trust fund to provide for the continuity of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) during a lapse in federal appropriations; require repayment of the moneys within 90 days of restoration of federal appropriations.
Note: These bills cover the same issue and will be updated based on the bill that has advanced furthest in the legislature.
Note 2: These bill would allow for temporary relief of SNAP recipients during future government shutdowns or other interruptions in federal SNAP funding.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB561 (Grossberg) - Would require the Department for Medicaid Services to include coverage for adult day health care and in-home attendant services in all 1915(c) waiver programs that enroll adults; require coverage of at least 40 hours per week separately for adult day health care and in-home attendant services; prohibit aggregating coverage limits for adult day health care and in-home attendant services.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
SB137 (Meredith) - Would allow and specify requirements for a physician licensed to practice medicine in another country to obtain a provisional license to practice medicine in the Commonwealth; set requirements for a provisional license to convert to a regular license.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
SB155 (Carpenter) - Would define "animal health emergency"; amend KRS 39A.100 to authorize the Commissioner of Agriculture, in consultation with the state veterinarian, to declare an animal health emergency; grant the Commissioner of Agriculture emergency powers to order veterinary or veterinary technician services, request that the secretary of the Transportation Cabinet waive regulatory requirements relating to the transportation of animal feed stock or medicine; order the quarantine of any livestock, poultry, domesticated animal, article, or equipment serving as a vector of communicable disease; authorize the Commissioner of Agriculture to establish roadblocks with the assistance of state and local law enforcement and game wardens employed by the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to prevent the transportation of animals, articles, or equipment ordered quarantined; authorize the Commissioner of Agriculture to purchase goods and services needed to stop the spread of the communicable disease without regard to the Model Procurement Code established in KRS Chapter 45A; authorize the Commissioner of Agriculture to request emergency assistance from any local government or special district, state agency, and the Governor in order to initiate any request for federal assistance.
Note: This bill authorizes powers that would dramatically increase Kentucky's ability to combat zoonotic infections and enhances preparedness for epidemics and/or pandemics. Direct opposition to HB111.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
Technology
HB33 (Moore) - Would prohibit any controller under the Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act from engaging in surveillance pricing, or offering, setting, or displaying a price for a good or service to a consumer using an automated-decision system that is based, in whole or in part, on individualized data.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB64 (Hodgson) - Would establish limitations on the introduction of identification devices on or within the human body; would establish a statute of limitations for an action filed for introduction of an identification device; would amend KRS 508.152, relating to the unlawful use of tracking devices, to include the installation of a tracking device on the person or property of another without their consent and exempt parental tracking of minors from the prohibition.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB223 (Tackett Laferty) - Would prohibit a school district from operating a fully autonomous vehicle as a school bus or for transporting students; prohibit the operation of a fully autonomous vehicle if that vehicle requires an operator with a commercial driver's license
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB318 (Grossberg) - Would establish property rights in every individual's name, voice, and likeness; establish how the property rights may be transferred or terminated; establish a civil cause of action and damages for unauthorized use of an individual's name, voice, or likeness; provide exceptions; require that an action commence within 4 years of discovery of the violation.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB366 (Johnson) - Would amend KRS 531.335, relating to possession or viewing of matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor, to provide that the sexual performance may be by a computer-generated image of a minor; provide that any person convicted of possession or viewing of matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor shall not be released on probation or parole without serving 85% of the sentence imposed.
Note: KAS strongly supports propositions to regulate computer-generated content for the protection of children and the greater population.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB455 (Banta) Would restrict the use of artificial intelligence by certain licensed professionals in therapy and psychotherapy services; prohibit licensed professionals from using artificial intelligence to assist in providing supplementary support in therapy or psychotherapy services where the client's therapeutic session is recorded; provide exceptions; prohibit advertising or offering therapy or psychotherapy services unless the therapy or psychotherapy services are conducted by a licensed professional; limit how a licensed professional may use artificial intelligence; require all records between a licensed professional and a patient to be confidential.
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |
HB559 (Grossl) - Would establish consumer rights relating to social media and artificial intelligence data; require social media companies and model operators to implement data interoperability interfaces; establish requirements for data sharing between social media services and artificial intelligence systems
| Introduced | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in first chamber | Delivered to second chamber | Referred to committee | Awaiting vote in second chamber | Passed both chambers | Delivered to Governor |